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The Challenge of Our Moment

A Discussion with Don Beck, Brian Swimme, & Peter Senge
Moderated by Andrew Cohen & introduced by Craig Hamilton

Craig Hamilton: If there is one thing that all of the futurists and visionaries we spoke with for this issue seem to agree on, it is that whatever course our collective destiny takes, navigating the years ahead is going to be a challenge. As the unpredictable forces of change transform every sector of planetary life and culture—societal, technological, environmental, geopolitical—the terrain of our global village is morphing beneath our feet, bringing with it an increasingly complex, interwoven web of problems requiring our attention, demanding a response. But what sort of response will truly meet the challenges ahead? To whom can we look for a vision all-encompassing enough to embrace the complexity of the conditions that confront us at the dawn of the twenty-first century? If Einstein was correct in his assertion that "problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them," then what sort of new thinking and what sorts of new thinkers are going to take us beyond the existential conundrums of tomorrow?

Those who read our last issue will remember Don Beck as the psychologist and geopolitical wizard behind Spiral Dynamics, a revolutionary model of human values development that is finding its way into the offices and toolkits of an ever-increasing number of global and organizational leaders. Beck’s theory presents a comprehensive picture of the progressive stages through which individuals, organizations, and cultures evolve, and in so doing provides a key to understanding and untangling large-scale conflicts. By showing that most major conflicts boil down to a clash between different core value systems or memes, Beck has played a key role in such major undertakings as the ending of South African apartheid and the societal restructuring of Singapore.
Large-scale transformation is also at the core of Brian Swimme's work, and in his case, large is the operative word. A mathematical cosmologist with the heart of a nature mystic, Swimme has spent the past two decades bringing to life the awe-inspiring tale of cosmic evolution that has been unfolding as our universe since it exploded into existence some fourteen billion years ago. Swimme has dedicated his life to awakening others to the wonder of our cosmic heritage and the unique role and responsibility of the human in carrying evolution forward.
Changing the world means changing institutions, and there are few who have explored the territory of institutional transformation like "management giant" Peter Senge. Widely regarded as "the world's most extraordinary thinker on creating learning organizations," Senge shook the foundations of business thinking with the publication of his 1990 book The Fifth Discipline, in which he transformed the abstract ideas of systems theory into practical tools for grappling with the complexities of large-scale organizational change. A senior lecturer at MIT, Senge speaks extensively throughout the world, calling leaders in business, education, health care, and government to bring vision, purpose, reflectiveness, and systems thinking into their organizational culture

ANDREW COHEN: Gentlemen, the question that we are looking into is very simple: What is a truly relevant spiritual path for our times? But the issues it raises are multifaceted. For example, will the religious traditions, in their current forms, be able to meet the needs of the awakening human in the twenty-first century? Will they be able to serve as catalysts for the much-needed response to the emerging multidimensional crisis we find ourselves in the midst of? Or do we need a new (or improved) approach to this whole topic? So this is the direction of our discussion. But before we go into these questions, I think it's important to speak a little bit about what our current crisis actually is. Many feel that we may be on the verge of a civilizational war, that the growing stress on our natural environment is creating a worldwide emergency where the very survival of life as we have known it is at stake, and simultaneously, many of our institutions seem to be failing dramatically to meet the demands of these changing life conditions. So to begin, could you each please describe simply and clearly from your own vantage point what this crisis is?

DON BECK: I think we're in what could be called the "Age of Fragmentation"— fragmentation as a result of the end of the Cold War and the breakdown of the simpler bipolar world it represented. The suppressed value systems and cultural forces that have been bubbling and boiling for generations are suddenly revealed. And now we're seeing tribes, empires, holy "ism" orders, crusades, jihads—we are subjected to unbelievable change because there are billions of people who are passing through different levels of development simultaneously.
Many people are now moving into zones of societal development that we, in the Western world, vacated three hundred years ago. So, instead of our species moving in a singular advance along a horizontal line, there are multiple changes happening up and down the developmental spiral. Which means that all the ancient wars, conflicts, revenges, and grudges that have characterized human history from the very beginning, are now reappearing—all at the same time.
And simultaneously, we are witnessing new versions of a historic shift as our economic, political, technological, and social worlds are, indeed, being pulled closer together. So we are presented with a world of complexity like we've never had before. Unhappily, none of our institutional forms or coping systems can match this complexity. We are searching frantically for organizing systems that can handle these new conditions; we are searching for cohesion in this Age of Fragmentation.

BRIAN SWIMME: Yes, exactly. To describe the nature of the crisis, I would put it this way: We have given birth to these powerful forms of institutions—by which I mean corporations and large organizations, as well as nation-states, and even, to a certain degree, whole civilizations—and we have shaped these with our various different worldviews or mentalities. So we've given birth to all of these institutions, and we happen to be in a moment when the limitation of the mind that gave birth to these has become apparent. That limitation is a very specific one: the form of mind that shaped these institutions was what I would call microphase—which means it was only dealing with the dynamics of a part in relationship to a whole. This form of mind has its roots very deep in our evolutionary past. It has come to us from a long history of learning how to survive.

Now, that mentality was fine as long as the human species was just one species among many. But over the last several decades, we have actually become something far more. In terms of our impact on the planet, we've become something comparable to the atmosphere or the hydrosphere. We have become planetary. We've become a planetary partner to the atmosphere and the biosphere. But we don't live in institutions that were designed to carry out that larger role. These institutions were designed to deal with problems that are smaller than the entire planet. So our challenge is to give birth to institutions that are shaped by a mind that is planetary, a wisdom that is responsible to the entire planet.

BECK: That's true, Brian. We might ask: Why don't we just sit back and let the process continue? After all, so far, we humans have survived and landed on our feet. But what makes it extremely dangerous today is that we have billions of people who are poised to experience a quality of life in the so-called first world—materialism—at a time when many of us are realizing how limited that is and that we need to live more lightly on the land.
COHEN: Yes, this is all so true. And from what I've observed, most people just don't seem to be awake to this crisis. I mean, it's not that we haven't heard about it, but maybe we're choosing to avoid facing the truth about all this because the implications are just so overwhelming!

PETER SENGE: Yes. I think that the degree to which people perceive that there's a crisis varies a great deal depending on where they stand in the world today. I think the sense that "there really is no big crisis" is probably strongest in the United States—even after 9/11. You know, it's a pretty understandable human reaction to put our heads back in the sand and just assume that the war on terrorism will get taken care of by somebody, somewhere. There's clearly a lot of dis-ease under the surface, but on the surface there's an "eat, drink, and be merry" kind of mindset, which we work hard to maintain. I think there are two reasons for this. One reason is the traditional isolation and insulation of American culture. Relative to most of the world's "advanced" or industrialized countries, we're probably the most isolated. Perhaps Japan is the only other one that's close—and that highlights the point: we're as isolated as an island.

The second reason is that we're the world's biggest perpetrator of a lot of the problems. Clearly, the U.S. is the world's largest consumer of raw materials, and the world's largest believer in the mainstream globalization of capitalism. But it's very hard for us to look in the mirror and imagine that we might be the most dangerous country in the world, which I think, without question, we are. And therefore, it's very hard to name these crises in ways that people will agree to because the perceptions are so different around the world. Even in Europe, there are different perceptions from here. And certainly the rest of the world, by and large, has a very different take on the challenges that we face, which revolve around the ecological and social imbalances that are getting worse and worse.

COHEN: So the second question I'd like to go into is this: What are the different capacities and kinds of responses that will be required from us in order to be able to meet these life conditions?

SWIMME: I'd say that the nature of our moment is that humans have become this planetary power. Yet we're operating with an understanding that is microphase, or partial, or fragmented. So in terms of the practical capacity we need, it would be something like learning how to think like a planet. The practical challenge is to become a mode of a complex planetary community.

I like an idea of Peter's that I've heard: that these institutions we've created, these large corporations, are something like a new species. I think that's a great way to think about them. They are very new and very young. So the capacity we need right now is like a new form of natural selection. We need to develop the skills of understanding complex systems so that we can hone, reinvent, and reshape these institutions so that they build an integral Earth community.

BECK: I think what's been missing is the understanding that we have to redistribute not just resources but the coping mechanisms to handle more complex issues. External approaches designed to improve the human condition are faulted unless they also include, as parallel and simultaneous tracks, the essential steps and stages in interior social development. Economic, political, and technological efforts must correlate with the levels of complexity of thinking within individuals and entire cultures—otherwise they will make things worse, not better. If we just pour money on problems, it ends up in Swiss bank accounts. We've tried the egalitarian approach, assuming that everyone is at the same level of thinking and therefore will act in a responsible fashion, and it doesn't work. So because people are at different levels of development, we have to think in terms of constructing the habitats. If we can think in those terms, I believe there's a real possibility that we can stitch together this wounded world.

SWIMME: Could you say a bit more about what you mean by "constructing the habitats"?

BECK: Well, when I talk about habitats, I mean the social, political, and economic habitats or life conditions that will facilitate new levels of psychological emergence in individuals and cultures. The system of Spiral Dynamics uses the image of a spiral to describe the underlying developmental process through which individuals and cultures progress, with each upward turn representing the worldviews or value systems within us that form in response to changing life conditions. The Spiral Dynamics model identifies eight mems or levels of development through which both individuals and whole societies pass. These fundamental core patterns, although expressed in different ways in various cultures and subcultures, are common themes across humanity, all over the planet. And only by understanding these deeper value-system currents does it become possible to develop more realistic big-picture views and craft practical and appropriate solutions to real problems.

The idea would be that we gently, if possible, and sometimes with tough love when necessary, assist humans to emerge through these layers and levels. A good example of how this can work would be Singapore, where they built a pretty rigid authoritarian system, which most of us would see as unnecessarily punitive. But that's how those folks are dealing with their life conditions, which include five volatile ethnic groups that need that structure. And now they need to move to the next level and create a more scientific, rational system—in other words, create "Singapore, Inc." and begin to compete more openly in the global economy.
So you can begin to see how, as the life conditions problems are solved at one level, the next political/social/economic package becomes necessary, which then makes possible a movement to the next level. And because different cultures are at different levels on the spiral, there are different futures for different folks. What's next for Singapore would be something that's history for us. And the future of the third world will have to be second world Singapore-type authority before either first world autonomy become an option.

COHEN: Now I'd like to go into some of the questions I mentioned earlier. In light of everything you've all just laid out, it's obvious that in order to meet this crisis, human beings will have to evolve to a higher level of consciousness and a deeper level of maturity. Do you think that the religious traditions in their current forms are equipped to help us recognize, come to terms with, and respond to the dramatic nature of the changing life conditions that we're in the midst of?

SWIMME: I think that the religious traditions were, generally speaking, set up to accomplish things that were different than what this crisis is demanding. So for the most part, they are not focused on this, and most of them don't recognize the crisis even now, in the terms in which one would want it to be recognized. But they just were not designed for that; they weren't about this crisis. This is new; it's never happened in the history of the world.

At the same time, there are resources within all of the religious traditions that are, I think, essential for our moment. It's not as if we can just throw them over. I think they do provide crucial insights and practices. But they have to be, in a certain sense, shaped and transformed to be appropriate.

BECK: I agree, and I think the question is: What level of religious system are we talking about? I think this is also what Brian was implying. Because when you say "religion," I tend to think in terms of the levels of development out of which those religions arose. For example, many of the great traditions arose out of a mythic, absolutist, authoritarian stage. And maybe, because of very conservative elements, some of them will never be able to see this big picture and therefore will not be able to change. Yet, they are very important because they help people and cultures to make a particular developmental shift, out of a lower level (egocentric) into a higher level (absolutist). They understand that transition better than anybody, but they are not going to understand anything beyond that.
So for example, some of these conservative religious systems are clearly addressing the needs of a lot of people, even Americans, especially many coming out of so-called minority communities. And if we can see the value of that, and at the same time say to those in these traditions, "Beware of becoming a closed system," then we've done ourselves a great favor. So how we understand the verticality or developmental importance of these expressions of religion, or spirituality, is the key element.

SENGE: What's the word you're using, Don, "verticality"?

BECK: Yes. When I say "understand the verticality," I mean, see the importance of different spiritual forms at different stages of development, rather than what many people do, which is to discredit earlier forms. The shift that we need to bring about is from embracing a single expression of religion and spirituality to recognizing the evolutionary flow of religious experiences. If we can do this, I think the whole spiritual community can play a major role in the kind of transformation that is needed.

SWIMME: If we can bring forth the central ideas from each tradition that are helpful, it would really be an amazing contribution to the transformation we're in. I love the way Don put it, that some of these traditions are absolute experts at various aspects of the developmental transitions that are required. If we can bring those into play in our current context, it could be very powerful.

COHEN: Yes. And it is indeed enlightening when one recognizes that human emotional, psychological, and spiritual evolution is part of a vast, complex developmental process—a process that we are all, individually and collectively, participating in.
What kind of new moral, ethical, and spiritual framework would each of you advocate that would enable more and more of us to meet the great challenges of our life conditions?

SENGE: I think we know plenty about spirituality, morality, and ethics. But what has shifted totally is the context because, as we've been saying, the context now is global, and therefore it can't be anything less than a global spirituality. I think there is immense innate knowledge in the human, and probably in quite a few other species, that we would all consider to be spiritual knowledge, but the problem is that we don't know how to access it and cultivate it in the present global context.
The one place that I think we can look, to some degree, is science. I think the spirituality of the next millennium will be very tied to science. Because, for all its shortcomings, the development of Western science in the last four or five hundred years is undoubtedly an important development in human society, and many people have pointed to science as kind of the religion of this epoch. I think that's probably a pretty good analogy. Today we look to scientists as people traditionally looked to religious leaders, to tell us how reality really works.
COHEN: Don, what kind of new moral, ethical, and spiritual framework would you advocate to enable more and more of us to meet the great challenges of our changing life conditions?

BECK: I think part of it will be a recognition that different people at different stages have to embrace different versions of spirituality. And rather than their being the target of our scorn and ridicule, our task is to help them through these healthy, positive expressions of spirituality because these expressions are necessary at different stages of the spiral. So the framework that I'm talking about contains these elements of pilgrimage, of trial and error, of gaining new systems, of leaving ego behind, of doing whatever is necessary to increase the capacity for more complex thinking.
COHEN: Brian, what kind of new moral, ethical, and spiritual framework would you advocate?

SWIMME: Framework is a perfect word because we find ourselves in this moment, at least in the West, of having broken apart all the frameworks. There's nothing we can really agree on, in terms of value. What we're left with is lowest-common-denominator consumerism. That's our world! So what would be a new framework?

It seems to me that we're in the moment of discovering this new framework of the universe in development itself. As you've mentioned, Andrew, and Peter and Don, it is a vast new historical revelation of life, of spirit, or of the universe. I liked what Peter said—it will be a new science. And I guess I would describe it in two ways. One would be the discovery of evolution, cosmic evolution. We have this amazing vision of the universe, coming from this numinous seed and then expanding out to where we are now. So from this empirically based approach to reality, it's just so evident that we are connected and involved with everything. We're all coming from the same seed point.

So that would be the large-scale discovery. And then to deepen it, in terms of the micro nature of reality, we have the quantum discovery of the inseparability of the inner and the outer. And this goes with what Peter was talking about. Now we realize that this division between inner and outer simply is not viable; it was an illusion that worked for Newton and Descartes, but the deeper understanding is seamlessness. And so we have the discovery of a developing universe that is, from the beginning, seamless. We are everywhere involved with the whole thing.

In this framework, then, our fundamental challenge is this notion of individuality, or we could say discontinuity. We have this illusion that we're not connected, we're not part of, we're separate from, and our entire economic and political systems are based on that premise: the separation between the human and the rest of the world. So one of the great challenges is breaking out of that illusion. And that's why, Andrew, I love your work and your emphasis on the way in which we have to learn how to disappear into the evolutionary process so that we break out of that fragmented ego.

COHEN: That's a great description of it. That's the essence of what I would call "Evolutionary Enlightenment"—transcending ego so that we can literally disappear into and become one with the evolutionary process itself.

SWIMME: So I think that is the framework—we recognize then that we aren't these isolated individuals, but we really are the whole thing; we're a mode of the whole thing. And so we develop the capacity to flow into the whole thing—and I like the way Don puts it—in the service of life. We have this power that no other species has had—human self-consciousness. But it's not for humans. And when that power is put in service of the whole, we become a way in which the whole evolutionary process moves into another phase of its beauty.

COHEN: That's profound. And so, therefore, this new framework would have to illuminate the fact that it indeed is we who have created the past and who will create the future. It would have to emphasize not only the global context of human incarnation in the twenty-first century but also the evolutionary context. As you so beautifully described, we are all playing a crucial role in a developmental process that, for the most part, we remain unconscious of.
So the significant task of a new spirituality would be to oblige us to become conscious of that fact. And most importantly, in this context, the task of a new spirituality would be a perennial one—to awaken as many of us as possible to the ultimate truth that there is only One and that we are all that One. Obviously we have come to a point where the divisions in the way that we think about life and the way we live life need to be urgently questioned. Our very survival depends on it. Indeed, what it means to be a human being in the twenty-first century is one issue at this point! That's what has become loud and clear in this conversation. Thank you all very much.

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Tekst je možda dug i svakako težak, ali me zanima imate li neko mišljenje o tome što ovi ljudi govore? Šta mislite, koja je glavna poruka? Koje su druge ideje iznesene unutra koje vam se (ne)sviđaju?

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We have this power that no other species has had—human self-consciousness. But it's not for humans. And when that power is put in service of the whole, we become a way in which the whole evolutionary process moves into another phase of its beauty.

Pročitah tekst. Sviđa mi se način na koji razmišljaju. Ovo što vele da nažalost sve što imamo od institucija, bez obzira u kojoj grani, se bave više pojedincem ili skupinama nego što se bave čitavom cjelinom. Religije se koncentriraju na spas pojedinca, a ako ne pojedinca onda barem pojedinca po pitanju vrste odnosno ljudi. Države se bave samo svojim državljanima i svojim teritorijem, a ako pogledamo šire, na čitave kontinente tada se i oni bave samo sami sobom, no opet baziraju se samo na jednu vrstu života.
Brian Swimme spominje korporacije i velike organizacije koje smo proizveli. Ljudi na čelu takvih organizacija su previše zaokupljeni kapitalizmom da bi mogli normalno voditi nas ostale u neku "bolju budučnost", a činjenica je da su oni ti koji nas vode i donose odluke, u današnjem svijetu novac je taj koji govori odlučujuće "da" ili "ne" na neko pitanje.
Slažem se da je veliki problem što ljudi ili ne doživljavaju da kriza postoji ili ju ignoriraju, kada bih mogli promijeniti mišljenje i stavove mase tada šaćica pojedinaca ne bih imala izbora nego prikloniti se ako žele zadržati vlast i vodstvo. Naravno da je teško učiniti to globalno obzirom na različite razvoje naroda koje su i gospoda navela no treba početi od Amerike i Japana obzirom na njihovu populaciju i razvoj. Medije smatram ključem za tako nešto, medije i vodstvo država koje se trebaju bazirati na obrazovanje svog naroda gdje će iz korijena mjenjati "znanje" koje donosi. Vrlo je teško i nerealno vjerovati da se mogu promjeniti mišljenja i stavovi te odnosi ljudi danas, treba radit sa ljudima sutrašnjice, odnosno djecom jer kad tad, svi današnji vođe će umrijeti i netko ih mora naslijediti. Djecu treba od vrtića odgajati pa i ranije i buditi u njima svijest o cjelini, a ne samo dijeliću stvarnosti, to znači da već danas treba početi osposobljavati kadar za takvo poučavanje odnosno osnovati nove institucije koje će proivoditi ljude čija će zadaća biti poučavati, usmjeravati i voditi mlade umove u kojima je po mom mišljenju naš jedini spas jer trenutna situacija, trenutni živući ljudi nemaju načina, volje, potrebe bilo što promijeniti.

Green, slažem se s dijelom o djeci

Ovaj tekst sažeto kaže: Trebaju nam novi ljudi s novim idejama koji su svjesni toga da smo svi Jedno.
Slažem se, ali tekst je nedorečen. Očekivao sam dublju analizu.
Za početak, ovaj dio mi najviše upada u oči

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So you can begin to see how, as the life conditions problems are solved at one level, the next political/social/economic package becomes necessary, which then makes possible a movement to the next level. And because different cultures are at different levels on the spiral, there are different futures for different folks. What's next for Singapore would be something that's history for us. And the future of the third world will have to be second world Singapore-type authority before either first world autonomy become an option.

Dva problema se ovdje nameću. Prvi je taj da nemamo dovoljno vremena niti kapaciteta Zemlje da svi prođu kroz faze razvoja kroz koje je prošao "Prvi svijet". Druga, još veća zabluda je ta da ljudi nužno moraju proći kroz te faze ravoja. Ne moraju. Ljudi nisu stvoreni i preddestinirani da postanu ovakvi. Ovo je samo naš put. On ne samo da ne treba, nego se i ne smije više ponavljati.

Ostatak teksta me podsjeća na jedno sociološko istraživanje. U njemu je pokazano da je veća vjerojatnost da ti netko pomogne ako doživiš neko blažu nesreću kada je oko tebe malo ljudi nego kada se nalaziš u masi ljudi. Iako zdrava logika kaže - više ljudi, više šansi da će naići netko spreman pomoći, to nije tako. Ljudi u masi gube osjećaj odgovornosti.
Zato su današnji ljudi, usred globalizacijskih procesa izgubili osjećaj odgovornosti. Uvijek će netko drugi riješiti taj i taj problem. I tako nismo nigdje. Uistinu smo puno malih komadića koji znaju da smo svi Jedno, ali se ne ponašamo tako.
Jako malo fali da se ti komadići spoje.

Ipak, kakav je to novi način razmišljanja? Koje su to nove institucije? Kako djeci prenijeti ideje u koje su odrasli prestali vjerovati?

Green, sviđa mi se ideja koju si navela za odgajanje djece. Ali dok ta djeca narastu, biti će prekasno popravljati nastalu štetu. Veći dio populacije ipak čine odrasli pa je potrebno istovremeno mijenjanje svijesti, odnosno pravilno "odgajanje" svih, i djece i odraslih. Nisam iz teksta shvatila, na koji oni točno način planiraju "natjerati" ljude da se osvjeste. Može se nekome tisuću puta objašnjavati o tome kako smo svi Jedno i kako imamo jak utjecaj na okolinu, bilo loš utjecaj, bilo dobar, a da osoba to ne prihvati, ne shvati.

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Druga, još veća zabluda je ta da ljudi nužno moraju proći kroz te faze ravoja. Ne moraju. Ljudi nisu stvoreni i preddestinirani da postanu ovakvi. Ovo je samo naš put. On ne samo da ne treba, nego se i ne smije više ponavljati.

Slažem se. Jer koja korist što jej edan dio prošao taj razvoj i shvatio prijašnje greške, ako neće pomoći onima koji još nisu u toj fazi da vide greške i izbjegnu ih, da brže i lakše nađu pravi put.

@Green Hvala ti na vrlo lijepo sažetoj misli vezanoj uz buduće obrazovanje djece.

Mislim da svi narodi moraju proći kroz sličan razvojni put jednostavno zato što preskakanje stepenica u bilo kojem razvojnom procesu može dovesti do nesnalaženja u novim, prenaprednim okolnostima. Međutim, ono što se može učiniti, to je da se taj i takav razvoj ubrza. Ne mora treći svijet potrošiti 500 godina na to, možda to može učiniti za 2-3 generacije. To ovisi o nama koji smo na višem stupnju tehnološkog i ekološkog razvoja od njih. O nama ovisi kako ćemo ih uspjeti podići na naš nivo pa da dalje zajedno napredujemo. A mjesta za napredak ima napretek i na našem nivou.

Ovo što je Legi napomenuo što se tiče ograničenih resursa to se svakako slažem. Ipak, mislim da kad bi razvijene zemlje racionalno koristile svoje resurse tada bi dale priliku i slabije razvijenima da se bolje razviju. Problem je jednostavno u previše neracionalnom iskorištavanju Zemlje od strane velikih sila kao što je SAD, kao što to napominje Senge. Oni su jednostavno od malih nogu učeni da je kapitalizam jedini zakon. TO se mora promijeniti. A to je jako teško promijeniti u glavi jednog Amerikanca i to je ujedno glavni razlog zašto Europljani mahom promatraju prosječnog Amerikanca kao nekulturnog, neukog i bahatog. Oni ne znaju razmišljati holistički jer ih nitko tome nije učio. Oni malobrojni koji to mogu nisu na vlasti.

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Mislim da svi narodi moraju proći kroz sličan razvojni put jednostavno zato što preskakanje stepenica u bilo kojem razvojnom procesu može dovesti do nesnalaženja u novim, prenaprednim okolnostima. Međutim, ono što se može učiniti, to je da se taj i takav razvoj ubrza. Ne mora treći svijet potrošiti 500 godina na to, možda to može učiniti za 2-3 generacije. To ovisi o nama koji smo na višem stupnju tehnološkog i ekološkog razvoja od njih. O nama ovisi kako ćemo ih uspjeti podići na naš nivo pa da dalje zajedno napredujemo. A mjesta za napredak ima napretek i na našem nivou.

Naš nivo? Prvo, što je to naš nivo? Zemlje 1. svijeta? Nije. Ali i da je, žali bože ako cijeli svijet dođe na taj naš ili njihov nivo. Zemlje trećeg svijeta ne smiju doći na naš nivo! TO moramo spriječiti. Mi ne moramo preći na "nivo iznad" jer mi nismo napredovali, mi smo nazadovali. Za početak moramo odbaciti svoj nivo. Mi smo u lošijem stanju od zemalja Trećega svijeta jer mi trebamo reprogramiranje. Oni trebaju učenje. Ali ne učenje ovog našega.
S našeg nivoa nikakvim unaprijeđivanjem nećemo doći na nivo civilizacije prijateljske planeti. U nama je problem, a tek onda u zemljama Trećega svijeta.
Ali ne... mi vidimo da smo blizu samouništenja. Uzrok tome je način na koji razmišljaju zemlje Prvoga svijeta. Ajmo reći, mi. Što ćemo mi genijalci napraviti? Ubrzati promjenu mentaliteta zemalja Trećega svijeta na mentalitet zemalja Prvoga svijeta. Sve asimilirati nama. A u nama je problem. Ha-ha. Čak i u rješavanju sranja koja smo zasrali opet radimo ista sranja - asimiliramo sebi.
I TEK onda što? Spašavati Zemlju? S čime? S istim mentalitetom, malo modificiranim i uvijenim? O, ne, treba nam novi mentalitet. Po mnogo stvari suprotan našemu.

Legi, jesi li ti ikada vidio kako se postupa sa smećem i u kakvom je neekološkom stanu industrija u zemljama trećeg svijeta? Vjerojatno nisi. Tamo je stanje MNOGO gore nego kod nas. Kod nas postoji spaljivanje otpada, postoji i kakva-takva reciklaža, većina tvornica ne truje značajno okoliš (samo neke truju). Pitaj čovjeka na cesti. Prosječan čovjek će ti znati reći da se otpad zbrinjava, da za to postoje mjerodavne institucije i da je naš okoliš u većoj mjeri čist. A onda odi u Bangladeš ili Singapur i probaj tamo hodati po cesti bez maske...
Mi smo pak puno manje razvijeni od europskih zemalja. O toj vrsti svjesnosti govorimo ovdje. Amerika je priča za sebe...

Zemlje Trećega svijeta ne bi imale problema sa smećem da ih mi nismo počeli iskorištavati. Što se lažemo? SAD poglavito, ali i Europa najprljaviju industriju seli u te zemlje. Kod nas ostaje privid čistog življenja, a proizvode za koje je potrebna prljava industrija uvozimo. Najlicemjernije je to što nam to rade za mizerno jeftine cijene.
Ono što hoću reći, i najveći vizionari našega doba u osnovnoj matrici razmišljaju isto kao i mi. Otklanjanje problema koji je ukorijenjen duboko u nama je teže nego što to mislimo. Mnogi mentalni procesi koji su duboko ukorijenjeni u nama blokiraju našu sposobnost stvaranja vizije novog svijeta koji će funkcionirati. Mi tih procesa nismo niti svjesni. Početak spasa planete je početak mijenjanja nas samih. Mi ne možemo mijenjati druge ako znamo da mi ne štimamo. Možemo izmisliti tisuće novih planova i postupaka uklanjanja štete, usporiti uništavanje i zagađivanje, staviti gomile kočnica, ali to sve zahtijeva puno energije. Najjednostavnije rješenje je promijeniti se tako da nam kočnice i planovi nisu potrebni. Da naše djelovanje samo po sebi bude konstruktivno, a ne destruktivno.

Drago mi je da ovdje ponekad imamo i prosvjetljenja

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Zemlje Trećega svijeta ne bi imale problema sa smećem da ih mi nismo počeli iskorištavati. Što se lažemo? SAD poglavito, ali i Europa najprljaviju industriju seli u te zemlje. Kod nas ostaje privid čistog življenja, a proizvode za koje je potrebna prljava industrija uvozimo. Najlicemjernije je to što nam to rade za mizerno jeftine cijene.
Ono što hoću reći, i najveći vizionari našega doba u osnovnoj matrici razmišljaju isto kao i mi. Otklanjanje problema koji je ukorijenjen duboko u nama je teže nego što to mislimo. Mnogi mentalni procesi koji su duboko ukorijenjeni u nama blokiraju našu sposobnost stvaranja vizije novog svijeta koji će funkcionirati. Mi tih procesa nismo niti svjesni. Početak spasa planete je početak mijenjanja nas samih. Mi ne možemo mijenjati druge ako znamo da mi ne štimamo. Možemo izmisliti tisuće novih planova i postupaka uklanjanja štete, usporiti uništavanje i zagađivanje, staviti gomile kočnica, ali to sve zahtijeva puno energije. Najjednostavnije rješenje je promijeniti se tako da nam kočnice i planovi nisu potrebni. Da naše djelovanje samo po sebi bude konstruktivno, a ne destruktivno.

U pravu si, ali što ćemo poduzeti po tom pitanju?

Ljudi se trebaju osvijestiti, glavni problem današnjice je novac i ljudi zbog njega iskorištavaju cijeli planet, ne samo zemlje trećeg svijeta. Svaki naizgled dobrodušni čin je nekome prilika da zaradi novac, u suprotnom nitko niti ne bi bio dobrodušan. Tu se ljudi trebaju osvijestiti, živimo u dobu nafte i zlata i dokle god ljudi ne shvate da svojim materijalnim bogatstvom ne postižu ništa, vladati će ovaj isti mentalitet. Ljudi moraju stvoriti prioritete, živimo kao muhe bez glave slijepo trčeći za bogatstvom a ne vidimo da pritom gazimo u sve dublje i dublje blato, tek kad upadnemo u blato toliko duboko da više nećemo moći zakoračiti, zapitati ćemo se što zapravo radimo. Ljudi su jako primitivna vrsta i sve više vjerujem da nam nema spasa, trebamo doći na sami rub vlastitog uništenja da se trgnemo.

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Ono ‘inseparability of the inner and the outer’ zajedno s ‘discontinuity’ sam podcrtao…

TO je ključ!

TO! TO i TO je ključ!!!

Diskontinuitet je iluzija...

Tako je, diskontinuitet jeste iluzija, i to iluzija koja je nastala zato što naše ja ne može shvatiti da je u istoj kaši s drugim ja-ovima. Svi djelujemo i živimo na istom svijetu, sve što činimo utječe i na nas same, iako nam se to ne čini. Konačno, na kvantnoj razini postoji spregnutost, a oni koji dovoljno dobro kuže stvari uočili su to i mnogo prije kvantne fizike. Mi smo svi Jedno, i to ne samo ljudi već sve svijesti u Svemiru su jedno. Ako se koncentriramo samo na ovu planetu, tada također možemo zaključiti da nema akcije koja neće imati reakciju koja će konačno doći i do nas. Naše ja bi htjelo biti odvojeno, ali to može postići tek nakratko. To je dakle, iluzija iz koje se trebamo probuditi.

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@ MoW izvrsna tema! [/left]

Hvala, nadam se da će još biti takvih, pogotovo zato što sam veliki fan Cohenovog načina razmišljanja.

Dobro, dovraga, kako se probuditi iz diskontinuiteta? Kako uspostaviti novu ekonomiju koja se ne temelji na rastu radne populacije? Kako uzgajati hranu koja ne narušava hranidbeni lanac i ne koristi gomilu kemikalija i junk-fooda? U kakvim kućama živjeti? Gdje živjeti? Kako uopće pratiti odakle koji proizvodi dolaze i kako nastaju? Kakve gradove graditi? Kako se zbrinuti o gladnima? Kako provesti prestrukturiranje cjelokupne industrije, gradova, okoliša? Kako uopće natjerati ljude da shvate stvari o kojima govorite? Kako uopće objasniti ljudima da je duhovni napredak povezan s opstankom ljudske vrste? Kako hedonistima u materijalnim stvarima objasniti da tako neće biti sretni?
Toliko "kako" da doslovno ne znam kako u glavi posložiti sva pitanja. Toliko problema da ne znam odakle započeti. Od obrazovnog sustava, od uništavanja Amazone, od gradnja pametnih kuća? Što ako se ispostavi da je gradnja pametnih kuća neisplatljiva jer zauzima previše prostora? Što ako se ispostavi da izgaranje fosilnih goriva ne utječe na klimu? Što ako se ispostavi da ulaganjem u oporavak ekološkog sustava nastaje još veća neravnoteža među životinjama? Što ako se ispostavi da je sve već ionako zatrovano?
Meni je, iskreno, suviše odvratno živjeti ovako. Počevši od toga da nemam pojma odakle potječe moja hrana do toga da vodim duhovne razgovore o kontemplaciji i crnim rupama dok se problemi, od ratova do bolesti, samo gomilaju. Smatram da je to licemjerno. Da sam licemjeran dok učim matematiku u školi i razgovaram o spasu svijeta, a ja i nitko s kime razgovaram (koliko god mislio za sebe da zna) nema pojma, ali pojma o pojmu kako ispraviti sve ovo. Po čemu uopće usuđujemo same sebe prozivati duhovno razvijenijima zato što mislimo svojim mozgom, što smo svjesni krize, što smo zabrinuti za budućnost ako i dalje živimo isto ili se trudimo mijenjati sitnice? Jer, ruku na srce, mijenjamo samo sitnice u svojim životima. Što zapravo znamo više? O borbi protiv svog ega, regresiji ili pak širenjem ljubavi drugim ljudima? Širiti ljubav kome? Istima onima koji sudjeluju u sranjima na ovoj planeti jednako koliko i mi? Niti empatija niti duhovni razvoj niti najbolje namjere nisu dovoljne. Oni su potrebni, ali mi ne radimo dovoljno. Zapravo smo tako jako slabi i jadni jer unatoč tome što smo svjesni svega ovoga još se bakčamo s vlastitim blokadama i teško riješavamo privatne probleme. Sve je to zapravo jako licemjerno i gadi mi se. Počevši od toga da se sâm sebi gadim. Eto, počnimo od toga da ne znamo i da smo niže nego što uopće mislimo da jesmo.
Što dalje? Nemam pojma Ali sada barem znam na čemu sam/smo pa se možemo razgovarati.

Ali Green, sve je gore

@Green, naravno (mislim na tvoj tekst). Evo i

Trebamo se s vremena na vrijeme prodrmati i reći:"Stani, osvijesti malo svoj položaj. Nije baš sve tako i tako". Ovo je bilo jedno takvo prodrmavanje.
@Skulp, baš zato nam trebaju prodrmavanja.

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